Am I the leaf or the breeze? Blink poems & musings about landscape & sound-scapes. Posts are often inspired by a walk, art, cooking or what I learn from my cat, haiku. For a look-see at haiku, please go to June 11, 2013 post. Please visit my other blog: http://poetrybites.blogspot.com.

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Monthly Archives: July 2013

Yesterday at Ebenezer herchurch Lutheran we sent the 21 Magdalene icons back to their visionary artists with our gratitude and blessing. Let me share with you the icon written by Christina Gage (right) and the musings I wrote on all 21 paintings.

THE MANY FACES OF HOME

honoring the 21 paintings by 18 visionary artists in The Many Faces of theMagdalene exhibit curated by Jennifer Mantle at the celebratory weekend at herchurch April 27-28, 2013, and in anticipation of San Francisco Opera’s production of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Mark Adamo

Not out of the whirlwind, from the spectrum She of Red Tears emerges. She anoints. Jennifer Mayol

It was no surprise when the dove pecked her cheek the egg turned red. Guru Kiren

You who sat next to my mother have taken on a quiet, pensive feel. It’s about time. Jennifer Mantle

Even the smallest of the small grows under her care. And the word spreads quickly. Elizabeth Gibbons “The Magdalene as Guardian of New Life” or “Mary Magdalene Meets Micro Lamb”

The holy is no stranger to the flashy. Bring on the bling. Shiloh Sophia McCloud

Above as below, creating is the chalice of my intentional being. Leslie Nolan

My father gave me my love of walking; my mother, reading. Both are friends. Neither a stranger. So, let me introduce you to 7 of the friends I’ve never met but know well. For sure, I know my life has been enriched by our conversations.

Julia Cameron — The Artist’s Way
Natalie Goldberg — Writing Down the Bones
Twyla Tharp — The Creative Habit with Mark Reiter, contributor
Stanley Fish — How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
Virginia Woolf — A Room of One’s One
Gertrude Stein — Tender Buttons. Blood on the Dining Room Floor

Some words slip
off the tongue
all satin & sassy.
Some, proud & elegant.
Some shy, wistful.
Others, confident as sea
splayed upon sand.
Same is true of body
with body, luxuriating.
This deliciousness
has no need for words,
for clothes.
Doesn’t exclude lust
or love.

Kit Kennedy
Poet in Residence Bay Times
Published in Bay Times June 27 – July 20, 2013